Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil moisture content from three soil depths on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex

The dataset comprises the field soil moisture content expressed as a percentage at three depth zones, (0 - 10 centimetre (cm), 10 - 20 cm and 20 - 30 cm), measured from bulk density soil samples taken within each 1 metre x 1 metre quadrat. Sampling was conducted at six salt marsh sites at four spatial scales: 1 metre (m) (the minimal sampling unit) nested within a hierarchy of increasing scales of 1-10 m, 10-100 m and 100-1000 m. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England. The Morecambe Bay samples were taken during the winter and summer of 2013. The Essex samples were taken during the winter, early spring and summer of 2013. Samples were taken using a bulk density ring. Soil moisture content was determined by weighing the samples as fresh field mass and then again after being dried out at 105 degrees Celsius for 72 hours. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/125a899b-8f10-4803-a6cf-a2fb1739746f

本数据集包含了在各个深度区域（0-10厘米、10-20厘米和20-30厘米）以百分比形式表示的田间土壤含水量，该数据是通过在每个1米x1米的方格内采集的土壤体积密度样品所得。采样在六个盐沼地点进行，涉及四个空间尺度：1米（m）（最小采样单位）嵌套在1-10米、10-100米和100-1000米的递增尺度层次中。其中三个地点位于英国西北部的莫克姆湾，另外三个地点位于英国东南部的埃塞克斯。莫克姆湾的样品采集于2013年冬季和夏季，埃塞克斯的样品采集于2013年冬季、早春和夏季。样品的采集使用了土壤体积密度环。土壤含水量是通过称量新鲜现场质量后的样品，并在105摄氏度下烘干72小时后再次称量来确定的。这些数据是作为海岸生物多样性和生态系统服务可持续性（CBESS）项目（NE/J015644/1）的一部分收集的。该项目得到了生物多样性和生态系统服务可持续性（BESS）计划的支持。BESS是一个为期六年的项目（2011-2017），由英国自然环境研究委员会（NERC）和生物技术与生物科学研究理事会（BBSRC）资助，作为英国“与环境共存”（LWEC）计划的一部分。有关此数据集的详细信息，请参阅https://doi.org/10.5285/125a899b-8f10-4803-a6cf-a2fb1739746f。